Manuscripts

Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Micrographics and records

Description: 10 items: series of memos and reports, 1958-1965, related to "beginnings of microfilming & rudimentary records management system," per attached note; LAT Microfilm Editions price list, 1901-1971; (4 copies) ad/order form for LAT Microfilm Editions, "Missing Something," ca. 1979; (4 copies) ad/info booklet, "(LAT) Microfilm Editions," ca. 1979.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1958, 1965
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Departments - Classified Advertising - Promotion samples

Manuscripts

9 items. Material includes: advertisement/application form for accident insurance "for Los Angeles Times readers..." (1987); flyer with info. on "new extended Times Classified hours" (1987); tear sheet of ad, "We've put on a new face!" (1983); LAT classified's promo, "Perhaps Dick Tracy can solve...the mystery of the missing circulation." (ca. 1949); tear sheet of LAT ad, "the classified advertising picture for 10 months of 1938..."; booklet, "Your guide to Los Angeles Area streets and recreation" (1966); 2 other tear sheets of ads, 1966-1969; ad/poster, "Jubilee 1984 (1/1/1984) - unfolds to approx. 2' x 3';

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Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Receipts

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Materials include a stack of invoice forms from 1932 to Times-Mirror Co. and LAT from Steel Furniture Manufacturing Co. of Baldwin Park, CA; informal inventory of "Number of typewriters in Editorial Depts"; "Requisition...for Supplies" form (1962); blueprint (no date) "Front elevation of typewriter stand"; stack of correspondence from office furniture providers on topic of typewriter stands (1934); (2 copies) Times-Mirror Co. "Specifications for typewriter stands (1934); legal-sized sheet headed "Schedule 'A' - Office furniture and equipment...to be furnished...(by) Metal Office Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.," etc.

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Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Payroll

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT forms--time cards, vacation vouchers, Report of Absence; card with "Information on 1988 payroll tax rates..."; bulletins on 1987 and 1988 payroll tax rates; LAT informational flyers on "direct deposit" and "Free Checking," etc.

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Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - History

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: 2 LAT article copies related to LAT train / Pan-American Exposition train travel promo (1901); copy of ad headed "The Times and Sunset Magazine," (early 1900s issue); clippings on LAT involvement in Red Cross drives, war bond sales, etc.; 3-pp. report, "(LAT) civic activities and history since 1900," ca. 1960; info (on tiny slip of brown paper) on "Premiums with The Times included shotguns (1891)...copies of the poems of Eliza A. Otis...a sewing machine (1886)...The Times Almanac"; 2-pp. copies of Times-Mirror Co. "Promotion Department Expense[s] for...1920"; copies of Among Ourselves articles related to Promotion / Public Relations departments from 1930, 1956 and 1958; 2-pp. report, 4/29/1959, "Survey of Times-Mirror Company Public Service Activities," added in handwritten note - "Charities - Public Service."

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Departments - Display Advertising

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Materials include: articles from Among Ourselves; 4/28/1989 Management Bulletin on reorganization of Display Advertising; undated "Review of the (LAT) Selective Saturation Program"; (LAT) Display Advertising Dept. - "Functional" Organization Chart - 1958"; "Orange County 10 Year Forecast, 1970-1980"; LAT Display Ad Depth Chart, 2 cps. (1979); LAT Retail Display Rates...1973-1982; reports on ad linage; article, Los Angeles magazine, 3/1977, "Can the 'Times' ad censors cope with the new morality?"; 46-pp. "Guide to the (LAT) Display Advertising Department [w/ employee photos]." 3/22/1985; February 1989 edition of "Display Advertising Digest;" etc.

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Departments - Accounting, Credit and Finance - Travel Reimbursement Policy

Manuscripts

1 item: LAT "Travel & Entertainment Guide - Policy for reimbursable business expenses" (6/1/1988), 62 pp.

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